Photo Spotlights

Lydia Versluys from the class of 2018 received her white coat. RIT’s Physician Assistant Program held its 20th annual coating ceremony on May 10.

Seniors decorated their caps for graduation during Senior Week. The College Activities Board provided lettering, glitter, glue and paints for students to use to decorate their mortarboards May 9 in the SAU Fireside Lounge.

Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Career Services James Miller is retiring after 50 years with RIT. After several talks from past and present RIT presidents and colleagues, Miller shared his personal thoughts to the crowd in the University Gallery at his retirement party.

Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Career Services James Miller, center, is retiring after 50 years with RIT. Here, he shares a laugh with Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeremy Haefner, left, and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration James Watters at his retirement party.

RIT held a farewell reception for Jeremy Haefner, who has been the university’s provost for 10 years. Haefner is stepping down as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at RIT to become the provost and executive vice chancellor at University of Denver.

President David Munson, left, presents Provost Jeremy Haefner and his wife, Maurin, with a gift at a farewell reception on Monday. Haefner has been the university’s provost for 10 years. He is stepping down as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs to become the provost and executive vice chancellor at University of Denver.

RIT Trustee Frank Sklarsky ’78 (business administration/accounting) and his wife, Ruth, were on campus to celebrate the naming of the Sklarsky Center for Business Analytics in Saunders College of Business May 4.

Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli, a graduate from RIT’s criminal justice program, received the Contributions to Justice Award at the Department of Criminal Justice and Center for Public Safety Initiatives Luncheon May 4.

Bevier Gallery is exhibiting MFA Thesis work from CIAS’ School of Art and the School for American Crafts until May 12. The BFA Senior Exhibition in ceramics, furniture design, glass, metals and jewelry design opens May 4, 6-9 p.m. at Gallery r.

The BFA Senior Exhibition in ceramics, furniture design, glass, metals and jewelry design is on view at Gallery r through May 13.

Kathrine Switzer, athlete, author and spokeswoman, met with RIT students from the women’s cross country team today. Switzer is best known as the first woman to enter and run the Boston Marathon in 1967. She is the keynote speaker at the Women’s Career Achievement Dinner April 30, sponsored by the Center for Women and Gender and the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement.

A student team exhibited a scrum cap for rugby that will reduce the likelihood of concussion during game play at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on April 28. Project manager and industrial engineering student Akane Fujimoto helped an attendee try on a prototype.